Reading RSS Feeds

RSS feeds can be read by using an XML object, however XML objects do not support proxies.

Here is an example that uses Invoke-WebRequest to retrieve the RSS data via proxy (or directly if you omit the proxy parameters), then converts the results to XML.

#requires -Version 3


$url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/rss.aspx'

$page = Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $url <#-Proxy 'http://proxy...:8080' -ProxyUseDefaultCredentials#>
$content = $page.Content


$xml = [XML]$content
$xml.rss.channel.item  | Out-GridView

The result is the PowerShell Team Blog RSS feed.

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